Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
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Your UK City of Culture. A thrilling year of culture, creativity and the arts – It starts here.
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PAINTING THE SKY - THURSDAY 7PM! 🎨 🌌
Due to exceptional demand there will be an additional show of Painting the Sky, our spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking place in Saltaire on Thurs 13 Nov at 7pm!
🔗 https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
Due to exceptional demand there will be an additional show of Painting the Sky, our spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking place in Saltaire on Thurs 13 Nov at 7pm!
🔗 https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
PAINTING THE SKY - THURSDAY 7PM! 🎨 🌌
Due to exceptional demand there will be an additional show of Painting the Sky, our spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking place in Saltaire on Thurs 13 Nov at 7pm!
🔗 https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
Due to exceptional demand there will be an additional show of Painting the Sky, our spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking place in Saltaire on Thurs 13 Nov at 7pm!
🔗 https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
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Lighting up the town: 'BD is LIT' last night was wonderful! @bradford2025.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Lighting up the town: 'BD is LIT' last night was wonderful! @bradford2025.co.uk
📣 Just announced: Painting the Sky
Painting the Sky is a spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking his work out of the gallery and into the Saltaire skies.
Full information is at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
Painting the Sky is a spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking his work out of the gallery and into the Saltaire skies.
Full information is at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
November 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
📣 Just announced: Painting the Sky
Painting the Sky is a spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking his work out of the gallery and into the Saltaire skies.
Full information is at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
Painting the Sky is a spectacular celebration of Bradford-born artist David Hockney, taking his work out of the gallery and into the Saltaire skies.
Full information is at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/painting-the-sky/
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Claret and Amber Sky, Bradford, painting by Jane Fielder. View over Bradford City's Valley Parade ground. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
November 1, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Claret and Amber Sky, Bradford, painting by Jane Fielder. View over Bradford City's Valley Parade ground. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
It's November! This month comedian, actor and artist Johnny Vegas wants you to draw something that makes you happy.
Share your drawings by tagging us, using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/draw where you can see Johnny's drawing 💛💚🩷
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_g...
Share your drawings by tagging us, using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/draw where you can see Johnny's drawing 💛💚🩷
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_g...
DRAW! Something that makes you happy - Johnny Vegas
YouTube video by Bradford 2025
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November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It's November! This month comedian, actor and artist Johnny Vegas wants you to draw something that makes you happy.
Share your drawings by tagging us, using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/draw where you can see Johnny's drawing 💛💚🩷
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_g...
Share your drawings by tagging us, using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/draw where you can see Johnny's drawing 💛💚🩷
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4_g...
Bradford 2025’s Our Story Our City at Yarn Studios paired portraits from 1999 and 2025, capturing life across Bradford’s postcodes. Free Our Patch events continue — see link in bio.
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Bradford 2025’s Our Story Our City at Yarn Studios paired portraits from 1999 and 2025, capturing life across Bradford’s postcodes. Free Our Patch events continue — see link in bio.
Our Patch is bringing free creative workshops to communities across Bradford 🎨
In Bradford South, families at Reevy Hill Community Centre have been painting a colourful mural celebrating everything they can do there.
See what’s coming up next — link in bio.
In Bradford South, families at Reevy Hill Community Centre have been painting a colourful mural celebrating everything they can do there.
See what’s coming up next — link in bio.
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Our Patch is bringing free creative workshops to communities across Bradford 🎨
In Bradford South, families at Reevy Hill Community Centre have been painting a colourful mural celebrating everything they can do there.
See what’s coming up next — link in bio.
In Bradford South, families at Reevy Hill Community Centre have been painting a colourful mural celebrating everything they can do there.
See what’s coming up next — link in bio.
Absolutely superb work
October 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Absolutely superb work
We’ve loved seeing all your photos (and sketches) from Wild Uplands 🌿
Did you know you can still explore it from home?
Visit Wild Uplands Digital to experience the sounds, stories and landscapes wherever you are.
👉 Explore now via the link in bio.
Credit: Gavin Reid
Did you know you can still explore it from home?
Visit Wild Uplands Digital to experience the sounds, stories and landscapes wherever you are.
👉 Explore now via the link in bio.
Credit: Gavin Reid
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
We’ve loved seeing all your photos (and sketches) from Wild Uplands 🌿
Did you know you can still explore it from home?
Visit Wild Uplands Digital to experience the sounds, stories and landscapes wherever you are.
👉 Explore now via the link in bio.
Credit: Gavin Reid
Did you know you can still explore it from home?
Visit Wild Uplands Digital to experience the sounds, stories and landscapes wherever you are.
👉 Explore now via the link in bio.
Credit: Gavin Reid
Bradford 2025’s Our Patch workshops are free and open to everyone — no experience needed.
The latest Repair Patch explored crochet and weaving at the Oneness Centre, with more sessions popping up across Bradford this winter.
📸 Karol Wyksynski
The latest Repair Patch explored crochet and weaving at the Oneness Centre, with more sessions popping up across Bradford this winter.
📸 Karol Wyksynski
October 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Bradford 2025’s Our Patch workshops are free and open to everyone — no experience needed.
The latest Repair Patch explored crochet and weaving at the Oneness Centre, with more sessions popping up across Bradford this winter.
📸 Karol Wyksynski
The latest Repair Patch explored crochet and weaving at the Oneness Centre, with more sessions popping up across Bradford this winter.
📸 Karol Wyksynski
♻️ REPLAY is now open! REPLAY is a recycled playground without limits - come and play in a space built entirely from reused materials, repurposed for fun!
Sessions for early years, and older children at Damart, Bingley
🔗 Find out more at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
Sessions for early years, and older children at Damart, Bingley
🔗 Find out more at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
October 15, 2025 at 2:00 PM
♻️ REPLAY is now open! REPLAY is a recycled playground without limits - come and play in a space built entirely from reused materials, repurposed for fun!
Sessions for early years, and older children at Damart, Bingley
🔗 Find out more at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
Sessions for early years, and older children at Damart, Bingley
🔗 Find out more at https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
Director Javaad Alipoor saw something of Bradford in Fiona Mozley’s, Elmet — a story of family, revenge and the ultimate price of freedom
The Javaad Alipoor Company brings that vision to life at Loading Bay.
Music: The Unthanks
Elmet, Loading Bay
22 Oct–2 Nov.
Tickets available via link in bio.
The Javaad Alipoor Company brings that vision to life at Loading Bay.
Music: The Unthanks
Elmet, Loading Bay
22 Oct–2 Nov.
Tickets available via link in bio.
October 14, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Director Javaad Alipoor saw something of Bradford in Fiona Mozley’s, Elmet — a story of family, revenge and the ultimate price of freedom
The Javaad Alipoor Company brings that vision to life at Loading Bay.
Music: The Unthanks
Elmet, Loading Bay
22 Oct–2 Nov.
Tickets available via link in bio.
The Javaad Alipoor Company brings that vision to life at Loading Bay.
Music: The Unthanks
Elmet, Loading Bay
22 Oct–2 Nov.
Tickets available via link in bio.
Reposted by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
This exhibition was so good - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @bradford2025.co.uk
‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures
Pinball, boomboxes and vintage cars! Victor Wedderburn’s photographs capture the joys – and struggles – of the era for the city’s immigrant communities
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This exhibition was so good - www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... @bradford2025.co.uk
As the sun sets over Penistone Hill, we say 'good night' to Wild Uplands.
Thank you to everyone who walked the moors, shared in the stories, and brought this landscape to life.
#Bradford2025 #WildUplands
Credit: Shanaz Gulzar
Thank you to everyone who walked the moors, shared in the stories, and brought this landscape to life.
#Bradford2025 #WildUplands
Credit: Shanaz Gulzar
October 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
As the sun sets over Penistone Hill, we say 'good night' to Wild Uplands.
Thank you to everyone who walked the moors, shared in the stories, and brought this landscape to life.
#Bradford2025 #WildUplands
Credit: Shanaz Gulzar
Thank you to everyone who walked the moors, shared in the stories, and brought this landscape to life.
#Bradford2025 #WildUplands
Credit: Shanaz Gulzar
All this year our amazing Our Patch producers have been running DRAW workshops to get as many people drawing as possible, supported by David Hockney.
Find your next workshop: https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/the-draw-tour-october-workshops/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
Find your next workshop: https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/the-draw-tour-october-workshops/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
October 13, 2025 at 10:24 AM
All this year our amazing Our Patch producers have been running DRAW workshops to get as many people drawing as possible, supported by David Hockney.
Find your next workshop: https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/the-draw-tour-october-workshops/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
Find your next workshop: https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/the-draw-tour-october-workshops/
📸 Karol Wyszynski
♻️ REPLAY is a recycled playground without limits - a space built entirely from reused materials, repurposed for fun!
🏭 Based in the Damart basement in Bingley, open to families of all ages, 14 Oct through till 30 Nov.
🔗 Find out more https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
🏭 Based in the Damart basement in Bingley, open to families of all ages, 14 Oct through till 30 Nov.
🔗 Find out more https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
October 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
♻️ REPLAY is a recycled playground without limits - a space built entirely from reused materials, repurposed for fun!
🏭 Based in the Damart basement in Bingley, open to families of all ages, 14 Oct through till 30 Nov.
🔗 Find out more https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
🏭 Based in the Damart basement in Bingley, open to families of all ages, 14 Oct through till 30 Nov.
🔗 Find out more https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/replay/
All year, we've been working with Bradford District and Craven Mind and Healthy Minds to help people whose mental health can be a barrier. 🍃
Read more about how we're supporting people with long term mental health challenges at the link in our bio 💛💚🩷
#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth
Read more about how we're supporting people with long term mental health challenges at the link in our bio 💛💚🩷
#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
All year, we've been working with Bradford District and Craven Mind and Healthy Minds to help people whose mental health can be a barrier. 🍃
Read more about how we're supporting people with long term mental health challenges at the link in our bio 💛💚🩷
#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth
Read more about how we're supporting people with long term mental health challenges at the link in our bio 💛💚🩷
#WorldMentalHealthDay #MentalHealth
Reposted by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture
✍️ The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices
By John Atkinson
@bd-angry.bsky.social
By John Atkinson
@bd-angry.bsky.social
Turner Prize Bradford 2025
The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 9, 2025 at 6:06 AM
✍️ The Turner Prize lands in Bradford’s Cartwright Hall for UK City of Culture 2025 – world-class art meets a city alive with fresh voices
By John Atkinson
@bd-angry.bsky.social
By John Atkinson
@bd-angry.bsky.social
Relive The Bradford Progress - A musical journey that celebrated the sound of Bradford – and the musicians who created our district’s glorious soundtrack.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/programme/the-bradford-progress/
Co-produced with Paraorchestra. Supported by The Signatur Programme.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/programme/the-bradford-progress/
Co-produced with Paraorchestra. Supported by The Signatur Programme.
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Relive The Bradford Progress - A musical journey that celebrated the sound of Bradford – and the musicians who created our district’s glorious soundtrack.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/programme/the-bradford-progress/
Co-produced with Paraorchestra. Supported by The Signatur Programme.
https://bradford2025.co.uk/programme/the-bradford-progress/
Co-produced with Paraorchestra. Supported by The Signatur Programme.
Up close and personal with your Turner Prize finalists 🔍
Zadie Xa
Nnena Kalu
Rene Matić
Mohammed Sami
🔗 Book here https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/turner-prize/
📸 Andy Benge
Zadie Xa
Nnena Kalu
Rene Matić
Mohammed Sami
🔗 Book here https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/turner-prize/
📸 Andy Benge
October 7, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Up close and personal with your Turner Prize finalists 🔍
Zadie Xa
Nnena Kalu
Rene Matić
Mohammed Sami
🔗 Book here https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/turner-prize/
📸 Andy Benge
Zadie Xa
Nnena Kalu
Rene Matić
Mohammed Sami
🔗 Book here https://bradford2025.co.uk/event/turner-prize/
📸 Andy Benge
It's time for the next theme for DRAW - This month, mural and graffiti artist Gent48 would like you to draw something Street Style!
Share your drawings by tagging us and using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/programme/dr...
💛💚🩷
youtu.be/rQ34nzomDYA
Share your drawings by tagging us and using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/programme/dr...
💛💚🩷
youtu.be/rQ34nzomDYA
DRAW! Gent 48 - Draw Street Style
YouTube video by Bradford 2025
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM
It's time for the next theme for DRAW - This month, mural and graffiti artist Gent48 would like you to draw something Street Style!
Share your drawings by tagging us and using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/programme/dr...
💛💚🩷
youtu.be/rQ34nzomDYA
Share your drawings by tagging us and using #Bradford2025, or visiting bradford2025.co.uk/programme/dr...
💛💚🩷
youtu.be/rQ34nzomDYA
Carrom is the tabletop game that's going viral - but what is it?
We welcomed carrom players from all over the country to Keighley, where we held a 24-hour tournament!
Find out more about carrom, and see how the tournament went at the link in our bio!
#OurPatch #Bradford2025 #CityOfCulture
We welcomed carrom players from all over the country to Keighley, where we held a 24-hour tournament!
Find out more about carrom, and see how the tournament went at the link in our bio!
#OurPatch #Bradford2025 #CityOfCulture
October 6, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Carrom is the tabletop game that's going viral - but what is it?
We welcomed carrom players from all over the country to Keighley, where we held a 24-hour tournament!
Find out more about carrom, and see how the tournament went at the link in our bio!
#OurPatch #Bradford2025 #CityOfCulture
We welcomed carrom players from all over the country to Keighley, where we held a 24-hour tournament!
Find out more about carrom, and see how the tournament went at the link in our bio!
#OurPatch #Bradford2025 #CityOfCulture
From Wibsey to Bowling, Cliffe Castle to Lister Park — The Beacon has brought people together in celebration, conversation and creativity.
Thank you to everyone who joined us along the way. 💛
#Bradford2025 #TheBeacon
Thank you to everyone who joined us along the way. 💛
#Bradford2025 #TheBeacon
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
From Wibsey to Bowling, Cliffe Castle to Lister Park — The Beacon has brought people together in celebration, conversation and creativity.
Thank you to everyone who joined us along the way. 💛
#Bradford2025 #TheBeacon
Thank you to everyone who joined us along the way. 💛
#Bradford2025 #TheBeacon
A sneak peek aheads of this weekend's STRIKE event, a spectacular show that uses light, sound and projections to celebrate pioneering Bradford women 🪧
📍Lister Mill, Patent St, Bradford BD9 5BE
🔗 https://bit.ly/47dPQ6L
📍Lister Mill, Patent St, Bradford BD9 5BE
🔗 https://bit.ly/47dPQ6L
October 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
A sneak peek aheads of this weekend's STRIKE event, a spectacular show that uses light, sound and projections to celebrate pioneering Bradford women 🪧
📍Lister Mill, Patent St, Bradford BD9 5BE
🔗 https://bit.ly/47dPQ6L
📍Lister Mill, Patent St, Bradford BD9 5BE
🔗 https://bit.ly/47dPQ6L
What an incredible evening we had at Bloom! 💐
A special thanks to everyone involved with the making of the event! Such a brilliant show, and a real standout across our year of culture! 👏
📸 David Lindsay
A special thanks to everyone involved with the making of the event! Such a brilliant show, and a real standout across our year of culture! 👏
📸 David Lindsay
October 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
What an incredible evening we had at Bloom! 💐
A special thanks to everyone involved with the making of the event! Such a brilliant show, and a real standout across our year of culture! 👏
📸 David Lindsay
A special thanks to everyone involved with the making of the event! Such a brilliant show, and a real standout across our year of culture! 👏
📸 David Lindsay